User:Henry Ayesiga

Henry Ayesiga (born 8th September 1997 in Kampala, Uganda) is a Ugandan tennis player who has struggled to overcome difficult beginnings and turned his talent for tennis into academic and professional success.

2008

Due to his outstanding performance and dedication to tennis, Henry earned himself a full tennis scholarship to attend one of the best Tennis academies in the East African region, called Sadili Tennis Academy in Nairobi, Kenya. He has been an active member of both his School and Uganda National junior tennis team since 2008. His high school tennis team has been National Tennis Champions in Kenya and has defended the title for the last 12 years consecutively. His good team work skills and good work ethics contributed to maintaining his school’s legacy of being National champions in Kenya when in 2013 he won his first National School's Games Tennis Championships singles title. He qualified to take part in the East Africa School Games that were held in Lira, Uganda and lost in the finals to his younger brother Edward Birungi

2010-2011

He represented the Uganda National tennis team in the ITF/CAT U14 circuits within the East African region; he won 2 of the 6 circuits and lost in the semifinals and finals in the remaining 4. He secured himself the 8th position in the Confederation of African Tennis (CAT) rankings and in December 2011, he was chosen by ITF/CAT to take part in the Africa Junior Masters Tournament which was held in Nairobi Kenya, the tournament brings Africa’s top 8 best players in both boys and girls discipline to compete for a final end of year ranking. He lost in the finals to Emmanuel Idoko from Nigeria and finished as Africa's No. 3 in the boys U14 category in 2011.

2012

He was among the few special selected pupils from Malezi School who were chosen to visit the United Kingdom to take part in an exchange program between Milfield School, Oundle School and haileybury School.  2013

He was chosen by Sdili Oval Tennis academy to visit the Junior Tennis Champion's Center (JTCC) in College Park, Maryland, USA to take part in a tennis exchange program.

2014

Was selected by the Uganda Olympic Committee to represent Uganda in the 2nd Edition of the Africa Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana.